tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5567979721702725554.post1884925927746784203..comments2008-07-11T11:05:33.094+02:00Simon Friedrichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04787320398692517943noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5567979721702725554.post-75274936689160188312008-07-11T11:05:00.000+02:002008-07-11T11:05:00.000+02:00

You're absolutely right, the phonophore in Heliopolis is already a vision of the internet/GPS/wireless communications networks.<BR/><BR/>Didn't know about Otlet though. I looked at the link and it seems that Otlet's was more a technically derived vision. Juenger's came primarily from a vision of the "technological spiritualization" of the earth (described in "An der Zeitmauer", "At the wall of

Karl Fraserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08516802533556411941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5567979721702725554.post-59767757631913744802008-07-05T01:12:00.000+02:002008-07-05T01:12:00.000+02:00

"(The Luminar is incidentally an uncanny vision of the present Internet, probably the first to appear in world literature. )"<BR/><BR/>Actually, Jünger had already described a proto-Internet cum GPS system in <I>Heliopolis</I>, which was published in 1949.<BR/><BR/>But even before this, a fellow named <A HREF="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/06/17/healthscience/17mund.php?page=1" REL="nofollow">

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